Kingfisher Airlines today cancelled over 30 flights from Delhi andMumbai due to a strike by a section of its employees protesting non-payment ofsalary.
While 22 flights of the airline were cancelled from Delhi, nine were cancelledfrom Mumbai, sources said.
A section of its employees, including pilots and engineers are not reportingfor work to protest non-payment of salary, they said.
Meanwhile, the board of the near-bankrupt airlines is meeting in New Delhitoday to discuss finances ahead of the announcement of quarterly results.
"The airlines' board is meeting at a five-star hotel in south-west Delhithis afternoon to discuss finances," the sources said.
The airline's operations have been disrupted time and again since April whenpilots called off work protesting salary delays.
Kingfisher Airlines, which has been facing fund-crunch for almost a year now,has not paid salary to its staff for the past five months. A sizeable number ofits employees have not been paid since February.
"We just can't work without being paid for such a long time. Hence thedecision (to strike work)," a pilot has said.
The decision of airline employees to go on agitation coincides with the monsoonsession of the Parliament that starts today.
"We hope that the strike will pull the attention of Parliament and ourplight and misery echoes in political corridors," an employee said.